I recently read the quote below from the Red Cross:
“Trevor Riggen, the head of the American Red Cross’s domestic disaster program, said the agency is ‘testing the limits’ of its network. This week alone, more than 2,000 staff and volunteers have deployed across 10 states. Many of them are on their second or third crisis of the summer. ‘It’s no longer, ‘We have a big event and then there’s time to recover,’’ Riggen said. ‘Disaster has become a chronic condition.’”
Deanne Criswell was interviewed on MSNBC and said the agency has all the resources to meet the needs of the moment. The only way that is possible is by shifting resources around and shuffling them from one disaster to the next — before they are really done with working at the previous disaster site.